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happier than others ; and it is well to take note 

 of the best she can do. Personally, I find her 

 happiest when she keeps her palette simple, paint- 

 ing broadly, and not indulging in Segantini-like 

 technique. And surely her simpler floral harmonies 

 are among the perpetual delights of the Alps, 

 and incapable of being bettered by even the 

 most fancifully fastidious of " post-impressionists " ? 

 What could be more charming than, for instance, 

 the simple combination of pale yellow and paper- 

 white, or of rosy-pink and rich mauve when, as is 

 quite usual, Biscutella and Cerastium, or Saponaria 

 ocymoides and Calamintha alpina are luxuriating 

 around and among the rocks ; or when blue Myosotis 

 and white Paradise Lily, or canary-coloured Crepis 

 and sky-blue Veronica, or white Potentilla and 

 rosy-mauve Geranium, or vivid orange Arnica and 

 lilac Orchids are blooming in important numbers 

 side by side among the grasses ? I do not advo- 

 cate formality — the formality depicted in Andrew 

 Marvell's lines : 



" See how the flowers, as at parade. 

 Under their colours stand displayed ■"■ : 



which suggests the careful horrors of bedding-out. 



A certain negligence is imperative ; we may be 

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